Odds tilt toward GOP Senate — Republicans are in the strongest position to win back the Senate since losing it eight years ago. — Over several months, the party has expanded its range of targeted seats, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has helped defeat insurgents …

NAACP Wants Thad Cochran To ‘Show Some Reciprocity’ — Black voters played a huge role in helping Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) fend off tea party challenger Chris McDaniel in a runoff election Tuesday, and now the state NAACP is asking the six-term senator to return the favor.

EMAILS: IRS OFFICIAL SOUGHT AUDIT OF GOP SENATOR — WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional investigators say they uncovered emails Wednesday showing that a former Internal Revenue Service official at the heart of the tea party investigation sought an audit involving a Republican senator in 2012.

The Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Cellphone Privacy — Fourteen years ago, the Rehnquist court interrupted a string of law enforcement victories to rule that when looking for illegal drugs, the police couldn't simply walk down the aisle of an intercity bus and squeeze the bags and soft-sided luggage on the overhead rack.

A More Nuanced Breakdown of the Supreme Court — This is the time of year that the news media roll out a familiar graphic: Nine head shots of Supreme Court justices, arrayed from most liberal to most conservative. — In spacing the head shots at equal intervals, the graphics suggest a steady procession from left to right.

EPA Employees Told to Stop Pooping in the Hallway — Environmental Protection Agency workers have done some odd things recently. — Contractors built secret man caves in an EPA warehouse, an employee pretended to work for the CIA to get unlimited vacations and one worker even spent …

3 reasons not to freak out about -2.9% GDP — Well, this picture keeps getting uglier. — Gross domestic product — the broadest measure of economic growth — contracted at a 2.9% annual rate in January through March, according to the latest revision from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Obama mocks climate skeptics at LCV dinner — President Barack Obama lit into GOP climate change skeptics in a speech tonight, delighting a crowd of 800 to 900 environmentalists in Washington's Ronald Reagan Building. — He said Republicans in Congress are out of touch with the American public …

John Boehner wants to sue President Obama — Republicans, after years of squabbling with President Obama, have decided to resolve their differences with him according to a time-honored American tradition. — They are going to sue him. — “What we have seen clearly over the last five years …

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